TY - BOOK AU - Downing,Eric ED - Project Muse. TI - The Chain of Things : : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 / T2 - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought SN - 9781501715938 PY - 2018/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library KW - Keller, Gottfried KW - Fontane, Theodor KW - Benjamin, Walter KW - Aesthetics, German KW - 20th century KW - nli KW - 19th century KW - Magic in literature KW - Divination in literature KW - Books and reading KW - Germany KW - History KW - German literature KW - History and criticism KW - Magie KW - Motiv KW - gnd KW - Divination KW - fast KW - Esthetique allemande KW - 20e siecle KW - 19e siecle KW - Magie dans la litterature KW - Divination dans la litterature KW - Livres et lecture KW - Allemagne KW - Histoire KW - Litterature allemande KW - Histoire et critique KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Painting magic in Keller's Green Henry -- Speaking magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- Reading magic in Walter Benjamin; Open Access N2 - "Shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers, including writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58144/ ER -